Sentence examples for temperate man from inspiring English sources
A temperate man, the RBI governor seems, if not actually disgruntled, then far from gruntled, as Wodehouse would say.
He described President Madison as a frugal and temperate man who owned only one suit, socialized with Thomas Jefferson and was so careful with his liquor that he probably never "drank a quart of brandy in his whole life".
Gascoigne subsequently refused to watch England matches in the 1998 World Cup, just as a more temperate man, Sebastian Coe, had holidayed on an island with no televisions during the 1988 Olympics.
"There is no more temperate man in the army than General Grant," he insisted, and he "never indulges in the use of intoxicating liquors at all" and was "an example of courage, honor, fortitude, activity, temperance, and modesty".
"I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business -- as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon, behind the bar and not in front of the bar," Mr. Samuelson said.
He takes us deep inside Blake's thinking — both in the present and in childhood flashbacks — to show how this sympathetic, otherwise temperate man developed such prickly, seemingly petty feelings toward his father, Arthur, who seems perfectly harmless if for no other reason than he's played by Jim Broadbent.
He spent some time among those very warlike, and, at the same time, sober and temperate men, improving much by experience in all sorts of service; and then returned with so much fame that the Achaeans presently chose him commander of the horse.
Richter, reflective and deliberate, is a family man of temperate tastes and orderly habits.
He is also a man of temperate habits; though not teetotal, his favourite drink is said to be fresh orange juice.
He wanted proof that "in temperate waters even one man, woman, or child, while alive, was ever attacked by a shark".
The report did not set exact minimums because water needs can differ with factors like age, health, weight, exercise and environment, but it recommended about 125 ounces a day for adult men in temperate climates and about 91 ounces for women.
